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they/them 》 Star Trek and plants and life and anything else I want, this is my life

[snakesinsocks2005]

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[gothhabiba]

diet talk is so inexpressibly nonsensical the instant you know anything about "the human body" or "nutrition" or if you think about it for three seconds

[gothhabiba]

"this is a great, low-calorie meal for meal prep!"

okay how do I explain this to you. "calories" is the part of food that makes it food. you actually need calories to stay alive. so "low-calorie" is the opposite of a selling point. kind of makes it sound like I'm going to be putting in a lot of time and effort just to not be nourished

[gothhabiba]

"I then immediately ruined the nutrition of the broccoli by pouring cheese all over it, but, hey, I tried"

okay hang on tight because this is a tough one. I'm going to try to explain the concept of "addition" to you. so the broccoli has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it, right? and the cheese has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it. and when you add the cheese to the broccoli, well... the nutrition of the resulting food can be found by adding the contents of both of its components to each other. I hope this helps

[milf--adjacent]

People who actually know about nutrition tell you to eat cheese and butter with your vegetables, because each has unique vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that your body struggles or straight up cannot absorb without something the other has. When you eat only raw veg because it's "healthy," you're missing out on half its nutritive value because some of those nutrients require additional lipids or specific vitamins like vitamin A or D or E to be readily absorbed by your digestive tract and again to be used in different parts of your body. Dieting makes it so instead of just dumping out all your pieces in a pile and following the instructions you can build your flatpack shelf, it's like placing each component in a different place in your house, and the shelf never gets built because you got tired of waking every time you needed something, so there it sits until one day you decide it's garbage and throw it out. A little butter or olive oil and a quick stir fry turns your vegetables from expensive fiber supplements to bioavaliable nutrients. Have your berries with some cream or full-fat yogurt: it's literally healthier and more complete nutrition. Put plenty of dressing on your salad. Have a steak: you need the iron. Stop starving yourself in the name of health because that's not how that works.

[sial-nawfed]

*girl who hasnt reached 1500kcal/day once in the last several weeks voice* nah im fine just tired yknow. probably just seasonal depression and all that

[sial-nawfed]

and if YOU 🫵 feel as passionate as these tags about making sure girls can eat enough food, pls donate to my ko-fi so i can actually afford it !! <3

[hidefdoritos]

ok Google how to not let my partner being grumpy affect my mood

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[irl-gideon-nav]

I hate being a teacher in 2026. Poob has it for you.

[irl-gideon-nav]

happy martin luther king jr. day. I'm grading homework that less than a quarter of my students bothered to do on time. half of the students who did that homework did not show their work on problems that I know they are incapable of doing without writing at least something down.

I cannot keep caring more about their education than they do.

screaming into the void.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

We need to start seriously treating the concepts of "obesity" and "weight loss" as a dangerous pseudoscience and I'm not kidding.

It's some shit that everyone thinks they can understand based on vibes but science just doesn't work that way. Real scientists have proved time and time again that it doesn't work how people assume. Many medical conditions where it's assumed weight is a "cause", something to blame the patient for, it's often actually a symptom.

Body size is based on so many individual possibilities. genetics, upbringing, wealth, what type of food you eat, what type of work you do, where you live, etc etc etc. it is impossible to control for all of these.

I was a child born to fat, impoverished, labourer parents, and I grew up doing farm labour, gaining muscle - I will never ever be thin. It's just how my body developed. And no matter how much weight I were to hypothetically lose, doctors would still push me to lose more. Family would push me to lose more. Society would push me to lose more. It will never ever ever be enough. You will never be thin enough, there is no bmi low enough to satisfy them, there is no "progress" that won't just make them pity or shame you even more. Your personal circumstances aren't important to a pseudo-scientific practice, the variables don't matter that much, it must be a one-size-fits-all solution.

Every weight loss pill, every low calorie shake or meal replacement, every weight watchers frozen meal, it all contributes to the pseudo-scientific cult of thinness. Every ad that says you're not good enough, it pushes you to drop your critical thinking skills. We have created a world where people think shitting themselves into thinness using potions with untested ingredients is healthier than having some fat on their bodies. But it's not! That's absurd! You're sending your body into a constant state of gastric shock!! And one day, when you get bored of eating tasteless nutrient paste and decide to eat something with some flavour in it, your body will react with a starvation response and store every little bit of fat that it can, because it's so used to being fucking starved. Which sends people into a panic response, buying up more pills and trying to crash-diet and lose their meagre protective layers.

Your body stores fat because that's your reserve energy. Fat is protective. I thank my body every day for storing so much energy for me, fuck knows I need it! That's your blubber!! You are a large mammal. Your body is designed to keep energy in reserve so you can sleep and stay warm and keep your brain alive. You should research the human metabolic process. You should research the cow metabolic process. You should research bear metabolic process. YOU NEED FAT!

And just like so many other pseudosciences, fatphobia and all that it entails is deeply rooted in racism and specifically antiblackness. It is not a mistake that the ozempic-chic era is coinciding with one of the biggest waves of open, globalised white supremacy we've seen in decades. Whiteness needs to perform & police whiteness constantly, maintaining appearances is THE way to stay part of the ingroup.

You must commit to removing yourself from that ingroup. Do not allow it a single toe in the door. A pseudoscience, no matter how comforting and easy to digest it may be, is not your friend. It is feeding you lie upon lie upon lie.

[xclowniex]

Hate that I have to keep saying this but "spiritually Israeli" is in fact antisemitic and is in fact right wing antisemitism rewrapped by leftists.

Israeli culture is made up of jewish culture, which includes the history of diaspora jews living in other countries before moving back to israel.

The idea that Israeli culture is devoid of any roots or substance calls jewish culture and Judaism rootless and lacking any real substance and denies the fact that when you live in one country and then move to another country, you bring the culture you grew up with you to the other country and moving doesn't suddenly erase what you or your family grew up with.

This is literally rootless cosmopolitan rewrapped with a leftist bow. In the USSR, jews were labeled as rootless cosmopolitans. That we had no real ties to anywhere. That we were forever wandering jews who were more loyal to jewish interest than the countries we lived in so we never were part of our host country's culture.

[stonefemmesiren]

a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course

[starlight-shadowbanned]

i don’t know how to explain to my non-jewish audience what it means that two torah scrolls were destroyed in an arson attack but what i can tell you is that during the los angeles wildfires, three staff at the synagogue in pasadena made 4+ trips each back into the building to rescue torah scrolls while the fire was close enough that ashes were falling in the parking lot.

what i can tell you is that we have a holiday once a year where we hold the scrolls and hug them and dance around them. what i can tell you is that they are written with love by hand by trained scribes who take exquisite care to make sure each word, each letter, is perfect. when we read from them we do not touch the parchment directly so that it won’t be harmed by the oils from our fingers.

we make beautiful clothing for our torah scrolls, embroidered cloth coverings and shining worked metal crowns to sit atop them or carved wooden cases plated with gold and silver. the torah is to us the words of the living God, the tree of life, the record of who are and where we’re going, and the torah scroll is our most holy ritual object.

the torah scroll never touches the floor. if it is dropped accidentally, everyone in the room must fast for forty days in mourning. the desecration of a torah scroll is the utmost level of desecration that can be done to a jewish community, short of killing its members. nazis burnt and destroyed torah scrolls as part of their campaign of terror against the jewish people even before widescale mass deportations began. in ancient times, the romans wrapped the rabbis who led our community in torah scrolls when they burnt them at the stake.

this past shabbat, in the middle of the night, a synagogue in jackson, mississippi was intentionally set on fire. the library was burnt to ashes and seven torah scrolls were damaged, with two of them completely destroyed.

i don’t know how many books were burnt, how many jewish holy texts and how many stories of jewish life and philosophy and love and resilience flew up with the smoke. i do know that the library was where the congregation had shabbat services and torah and talmud study. it was a sacred space. this is not the first time that people who hate us have destroyed our sacred spaces and our holy texts and our torah scrolls in order to terrorize us. i dearly wish it was the last.

[cripp-tid]

really sucks that as a Jew i cannot even grieve with my community about MY PERSONAL SHUL being fucking FIREBOMBED, FOR THE SECOND TIME(!!!!) without being scrutinized, victim blamed, sent antisemitic hate messages (you'll notice my anonymous asks are off now!), and told we should've done more.

I have people in the comment of news articles speculating about "oh I bet it was [whichever side of Zionism you want to bitch about the most]" or being blatantly racist or Islamophobic. as if this wasn't done by a white 19 year old NAZI.

can you people shut the fuck up about things you don't understand? can I stop being asked "why the security guard wasn't there" (IT WAS 3AM) (our security guard would genuinely fucking die for us and got an award for his 33 years of service on the same night as the fire) or why we dont "fireproof where we keep our Torahs" (the building is made of fucking brick with steel doors and bulletproof windows. because of shit like this.)

I've been told we "deserve it" for whatever blood libel strawman people want to prop up this time, told they feel no sympathy because I'm not making it about anyone else that is going through hardship.

I'm not going to offer up a burnt sacrifice of my personal grief as some sort of ritual to appease every bad-faith actor in the world. I am not going to make this about anyone else. I am not going to allow ourselves to be put down for not being perfect victims.

why is everyone so gddamn quick to yell at Jews for not being compassionate to OTHER groups when WE get FIREBOMBED. if one more person says something fucking stupid I am going to scream.

[knivesandteeth]

I love that Kira is bad at playing. I love that she makes bad art and doesn't know how to play pretend with jadzia. That she fails at everything feminine. I love that she doesn't know how to relax. My beautiful princess who never got to grow up and is still figuring it out. Like eldest daughter syndrome on steroids. My favouritest girl with everything wrong with her.

[shamebats]

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

[shamebats]

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

[puppygirllaika]

every AI work tool out there is like "did you know you're wasting up to 90% of your time on pointless busywork that could be automated away? and i look inside and the "busywork" is like. learning how something important works or double checking the reading on the safety valve. AI companies love to say "why would you waste time learning that in the moment when, instead, you could always ask me about it later?" and it's like. the point isn't to "have access to that information", the point is to know it. The AI can only tell me how to fix that air compressor if i can tell it what the problem is, and even then its instructions might not warn me of potential hidden dangers or might not see that i've got my screwdriver on the wrong screw or might not even be telling me the truth. I need to know how the pump works. I need to know which lines lead where. I need to understand the system I am working with. If something goes wrong I need to know how to fix it, because by the time something tells me how to fix it, it might be too late.

[straw-hat-moro]

you know, I think our teachers used to tell us the same thing when we complained about having to learn stuff at school. It's a funny parallel, but someone less tired than me rn will have to figure out the conclusion here.

[irl-gideon-nav]

Hi, I'm someone less tired than you! I teach high school geometry, and my students will consistently attempt to use AI on their homwork. (It doesn't work, of course; these language prediction models falsely marketed as artificially intelligent beings are famous within the educator space for being bad at geometry, primarily because the average person is bad at geometry, but that's a topic for a different post.) I've also been told by a surprising number of people, including members of my own family. that I should use AI to grade homework and exams. And that's where the parallel between OP and the above response comes in.

The majority of students tend not to see value of their classwork/homework; they view it as boring and/or pointless administrative work that serves no purpose beyond filling a spot in the online gradebook. This opinion has been held by multiple generations of students, including the parents of our current generation, and it's honestly not entirely unfounded.

Teachers, for many years, have had school administrators demanding that we provide more and more data that we are effective at our jobs, because the need to process and interpret that data justifies the existence of countless administrative positions. And that data has to come from somewhere, so teachers give more and more homework and tests to fulfill these demands. Students are not stupid, despite some adults' claims to the contrary. They can tell when their teachers are actually enthusiastic about an assignment they're being asked to complete.

That being said, the idea that homework is sometimes a boring administrative task that neither students nor teachers want to deal with has narrowed into the idea that it is always this way. There is now a common idea that no teacher ever wants to make, give, or grade homework, which is simply not true. And AI enthusiasts, whether they are the egotistical creators or the sycophantic users of these systems, used to be students who were exposed to this flawed and generalized opinion. Homework grading is a crucial piece of feedback given to students. It is an extension of our jobs as classroom educators. But as society, especially in the US, devalues teachers and our profession, so too are the essential functions of the profession devalued.

TL;DR, everyone you went to school with who thought the whole thing was pointless are now the people obsessed with AI, parents of people obsessed with AI, or both.

[icarusfellintomyarms]

It is so very important to me, as a Jewish person, that you people understand: Israel can do whatever it wants as a country BECAUSE the US Government allows it to. NOT because it's a Jewish state.

Jews do NOT control the world. In the grand scheme of things, this is so petty, but we're seeing the US kill and kidnap its own citizens, and the entire Jewish people are looking like prime scapegoat meat.